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Meanings of meditative in English
Deeply or seriously thoughtful;
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Examples for "brooding"
Examples for "brooding"
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Moreover, every brooding male is out of action for over seven weeks.
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The potential connection Heat had been brooding over could wait no longer.
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Just short of his middle years, handsome in a brooding, rugged fashion.
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Students can become brooding pessimists at this late stage in the process.
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On the sidewalk she heard the brooding scuff of heavy work boots.
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In this instance, however, he found himself pondering the older man's words.
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The energy expert stroked his cheek with long fingers, pondering the question.
3
The press has been pondering the Halal question too, for some time.
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The oldest, at least,' Ahmed added gravely after pondering for a moment.
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He called it, The Blessed Virgin pondering the Lily of the Annunciation.
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Both events are reflective of the way the game is played today.
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Joe Natuman admits this approach is not reflective of Vanuatu public opinion.
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Beyond a certain age, a journey across the city becomes uncomfortably reflective.
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But they're just as often culturally engaged, self-reflective and trying their best.
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Media behavior doesn't drive consumer behavior, it is reflective of consumer behavior.
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I could spend the evening of the year musing amid the Poke-stems.
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Thus musing, Sanford walked rapidly off in the direction of the village.
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And then, in the midst of my wondering and musing, something happened.
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The captain made no answer, but stood musing; Mrs. Weldon interrupted him.
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He was musing deeply, and his thoughts ran something in this line:
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On the way home my father was pensive and didn't speak much.
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It is tender, pensive, personal; other psalms are that; but Psalm cxix.
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But the quip was lost on Nikki, who stayed her pensive course.
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These thoughts kept him pensive and melancholy in the midst of pleasure.
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The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
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For the contemplative life consists essentially in things pertaining to the intellect.
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Therefore it seems that the moral virtues pertain to the contemplative life.
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He held these out with a face of grave and contemplative patronage.
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Therefore it would seem that the contemplative life wholly regards the intellect.
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Polidori again drew near the bed, and remained in a contemplative attitude.
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The demeanour of broody concern in the official photograph makes sense now.
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Another mid-tempo broody type of track it has many rhythmic changes.
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The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
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Finn's always been that mysterious broody type, but I don't know.
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Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
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After a few ruminative puffs, he studies what she has given him.
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Brett surveyed the privileged classes on the hearth-rug with a ruminative eye.
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They sat and sipped their lemonades, thoughtfully inspecting their straws, dolefully ruminative.
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She has a son, four daughters and a wry, ruminative delivery.
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Her voice became half-absent-minded, ruminative, as though she were thinking aloud.
Usage of meditative in English
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When Gertie is in a meditative state, any interruption can be dangerous.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'I find it quite meditative'... potters at the wheel.
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It's kind of a meditative process in kind of a masochistic way.
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Yeobright retired to the heap of recovered rope in a meditative mood.
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The attitude in which he rested his menaced eyes was profoundly meditative.
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Rosa looked at him with inscrutable eyes-deepas velvet, grave and meditative.
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Perugino clearly never broke through the meditative circle of the Middle Age.
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She considered the estimate with the prettiest pucker of her meditative brows.
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I was sitting there in a meditative state accessing my past relationships.
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The botanist tapped the arm of his chair with definite, meditative taps.
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He seated himself in his revolving chair, and appeared to be meditative.
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The young man looked up from his meditative pacing of the room.
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His meditative spirit was peculiarly impressed with the simplicity of their worship.
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As to the expression, it is not only meditative but even melancholy.
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Oddly, keeping busy with chores is very meditative and relaxing for me.
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Mr. Prosper went into the house very meditative, and sad at heart.
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Meditative across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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